Orobas, the All-Seeing Deceiver, who cataloged forbidden truths and peered into every possible outcome, was struck with terror, cloaked in awe.
This was not a twist he had foreseen.
Because it was never written to happen.
When Taufik chose Manifest Concept: Rewrite, the silence that followed was absolute.
Even the mirror dimensions seemed to hold their breath if such things could breathe at all.
Orobas's form begins distorting. Not melting, but becoming multiple, as if reality itself is trying to remember which version of him is true.
His thousand eyes close, not to rest, but because they now see nothing.
Then…
Orobas stumbles. Not physically. Concepts like him don't stumble. But the archive that is his body flickers and glitches, like corrupted code remembering a different language.
His voice, usually smooth and serpentine, now becomes jagged, as if he's trying to speak in a world that no longer agrees with the meaning of words.
